iBobber Reviews

I fish from a fishing well which is basically a house out in the middle of the lake so my this app is never more than 25 feet from my iPhone. The connection has always been good and I have been very pleased with its performance. Battery life appears to be greater than the ten hours advertised on the box. However the iPhone blue tooth connection uses up lots of phone battery so I suggest having a way to charge your phone on extended trips. The this app ease of use is an important feature which allows me to fish without a lot of setup. I have a Garmin Striker 4 which really isn’t designed to be portable and requires a lot of setup whenever I go fishing. Fishing from a stationary location I have not had the need to test the mapping feature. Overall I recommend the this app

I have a pond at my house so I used it to setup there are no fish I know the depth and what the bottom looks like it it’s crystal clear and no rocks or plants or deep holes. So when I set it up it’s about 4-6 ft off when it reads depth I was also suprised to find out I have multiple ghost fish in my pond!! it says there are multiple fish under 15 in and 1 over 15 in it and I can clearly see no fish! It says I have 2 big ledges that go up 4ft but it’s a flat bottom it just makes up stuff and people that have no idea whats in the water at a lake or river with low visibility probably believe what they are seeing. That’s not cool! It’s completely wrong! Don’t buy it save some $ get a better setup!

The this app does its job. I’ve found interesting features around my local fishing spot. The mapping feature works really well but the connection is often weak when using the sonar function. I suppose I don’t bring it back quick like when mapping. I still go 4 stars because I can see more from the shore now and move from bad spots and find better ones with cover.
I does the job. 1 suggestion for the fish alarm is “1 ping only please” until a new fish comes on the screen.

If you get my 1 ping reference I’ll go 5 stars.

iBobber doesn’t completely fill the screen. I see the half icons at the top and now I see where you can tap and drag them down but it looks off. I don’t know what else to say. iBobber appears to need some polish.

I’ll come back after I’ve learned iBobber and used the this app a few times to change my rating if it needed. I’m excited to try it out. I bought the pulse version. Hope it was worth the extra.

I previously gave a pretty bad review of iBobber . I amended it to an ok review of iBobber when real sonar contacted me and replaced my this app and things worked again. The latest app appears to have resolved all the issues I had with the first this app and now have two of them! Way to go real sonar! Awesome product. Awesome app. Awesome company to deal with when things go awry.

A+++ would recommend. Good job guys!

I like the this app but it would be good to have three colors for fish sizes. Where I fish I never spotted a green fish, all are orange which could be anything from 15 inch down to little 2 inch fish. That's quite useless information for me.
But the product works very well and I find it easy to use.

Please make three categories of fish: small, medium, large

My this app worked okay the first time I used it, but the second time out it marked a fish at 3ft and at the bottom of the lake simultaneously. I thought okay there are fish but no luck. Went out again same markers and I thought okay that’s weird and again no luck. Went out a few more times and notice again. Just tried it yesterday and the same thing. I’ll revise my review once this is corrected.

Found a nice hole with a fish at the bottom. Casted right in there and got him! Apple watch also nice feature. Suggested improvements: If I loose connection and reconnect it's a bit tricky to turn the bobber light back on. Otherwise keep it up!!

I put the this app in my hole hoping it would work, but it is so off it’s not even funny. I was at 5 feet and I could see the bottom and it said 12 feet. It also said there was fish going under me and I look down and there’s nothing, so I drop my vexlar in and bam no fish! this is horrible for ice fishing, but maybe it’s good for open water but I’ll never know because it’s getting returned!

Gives depth and fish locations, but it does not give an audible “ping” when a fish is located like it’s supposed to. That makes it difficult to use when you are in a kayak and trying to focus on speed and direction and cannot stare at your phone all the time.

This device will only connect inside your house once you step out of your house then it will just buffer over and over and over for a long time. And I’ve tried and tried and tried to make it work with this product is just a useless bobber

Got this as gift for last Father’s Day. Now that I’m about to use it tomorrow it will not let me update iBobber . I even went as far as deleting iBobber to get the new version. And it didn’t work so I’m stuck on the version before the 2.0!

Manual shows photos of the Settings screen that do NOT match the iPhone app’s Settings screen.

There is no “Personal” area - so no way to mark my fav fish.

There is no “Bluetooth Sync” area - no way to follow instruction manual to sync.

It would be great if: the depth reader started at 1 ft, there was a different color for s/m/l fish, and if it didn’t pull so much phone battery.

This is my second this app, I returned the first one, and they both disconnect often and the screen doesn’t update often. The bobber is literally 1’ from me beside the kayak and it doesn’t update and disconnects. Stay far away

Constantly disconnects. Not a huge issue as it does come back on. Unfortunately, the fish setting (beeps upon finding a fish) does not come back on. So one has to constantly keep turning the settings back on as it disconnects every 20 seconds.

I really enjoy the simplicity of this fish finder and it’s “user friendly” features...

Tries to sell you Netfish everytime you start iBobber and insists you enter your purchase date when you are trying to use the equipment. VERY annoying!

I put it in a glass of water and it said there were fish like what the heck

It only works like 10 feet away from you absolute trash DONT BUY

Ok seriously, it's not too bad although it does run down your phone battery. My biggest complaint is that iBobber requires you to create a profile. So if you wait until you are out on the lake in the middle of nowhere with no cell reception then it's worthless. How about a "maybe next time option" or "skip this step". I know the whole reason for the profile is about data mining but seriously! There are other products like this now that don't require a profile so how about?

I used the I bobber for the first time the other day. We were out in the boat because I wanted to compare the soundings on my Lowrance HDS system to the this app. To my amazement the this app gave dept readings within a foot of my Lowrance. I never got deeper than 45 feet but I got the impression it was capable of going deeper. It was late in the day and the wind was picking up so we weren't able to play around with it very long, but the time that we did it was a lot of fun! My daughter kept grabbing my iPhone to play around with it! One other feature i wAs able to compare was the water temp readings, it took a minute or two to get a stable number but once it did it matched the Lowrance. I'm looking forward to getting some more time to use it and i will post my findings.